ABILENE, Texas - Saturday night, McMurry University will induct its 25th class into the Athletics Hall of Honor at a dinner ceremony. This class includes former head baseball coach Lee Driggers, along with former football and track standouts Ed Ammons and Bob Reily. The athletic department will also induct the 1968 football team and Judy Moore the long-time administrative assistant for athletics will be honored with the Bob & Clara Brown award.

Reily graduated from McMurry in 1951 and hails from Colorado City. Ammons graduated in 1955 and lives in Merkel. Driggers coached at McMurry from 1996-2008 and previously coached at Cooper High School in Abilene and was the head coach at Hardin-Simmons University; currently he is the head baseball coach at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill. Moore lives in Abilene and still works in the McMurry University athletics department.

The dinner will take place at McMurry's Mabee Room in the campus center at 6 p.m. Saturday night and tickets are $25. However, tickets are not available for purchase at the door and must be bought by Friday, May 14 by calling the McMurry Athletics Office, 325-793-4631.

Below is Biographical Information on each inductee:

Ed Ammons - Class of 1955

Initially Ed Ammons went west to go to college at Texas Western in El Paso. However, after one semester, the Haskell Native retreated to the eastern-most portion of west Texas to come to school at McMurry University where he played football and was a member of the track & field program.

Ammons played three seasons for the McMurry Indians' football team from 1952-1954 under head coach Wilford Moore and enjoyed a Texas Conference Championship and an 8-1-1 record in 1953. He was named first-team all-Texas Conference in 1952, and in his senior year he helped the Indians snap a four-game losing skid to cross-town rival Abilene Christian and McMurry beat the Wildcats Ammons' senior season 13-7 in 1954.

Ammons said that Grant Teaff, W.T. Stapler and Tommy Watkins along with coach Moore were influential in his development as a student-athlete at McMurry and credits Bill Curry as one of his most influential professors.

He graduated from McMurry with two degrees; he finished with his bachelor's degree in 1955 before completing his master's of education in 1959 after a two-year stint in the U.S. Army.

Following his experiences at McMurry, he went on to teach and coach for 14 years at Weatherford, Clyde and Iraan before becoming a principal at Hart High School from 1972-1988. Then, he went to Merkel Elementary School where he served as principal from 1988-1992 before retiring.

Ammons continues to keep busy serving as a substitute teacher as well as teaching driver's education. He lives in Merkel with his wife of 46 years, Minnie, and has three childresn: Russell, Risha, and Brandon and two grandchildren.

Lee Driggers - Head Baseball Coach, 1996-2008

Lee Driggers spent 13 successful seasons as the head baseball coach at McMurry University from 1996-2008. he agreed to help McMurry start a baseball program that had been in absencia for 47 years. In 1996, the university's first team since 1948, McMurry posted a 27-19 record. Since then, Driggers and McMurry have never looked back. Driggers led McMurry to 13-straight winning seasons and has only posted one season with lower than 25 wins. McMurry won the ASC Tournament Championship in 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2008; all four seasons Driggers was named conference Coach of the Year.

While at McMurry, Driggers has coached numerous all-conference honorees, all-region players and five all-Americans in Joe Fichera, Josh Lee, Derek David, Brent Voorhees and Albert Carrizales. He also coached major league draft picks Tom Pike, Jim Wollscheid and Josh Lee. In addition to its four conference championship titles, McMurry won the ASC West Division title under Driggers' direction in 2001, 2004 and 2008.

In 13 seasons at McMurry, Driggers' all-time record was 360-218-2 for a .621 winning percentage. As a collegiate head coach where he had stints at Tarleton State, Hardin-Simmons and now Wheaton College (2009-pres.), he has won 449 games as a collegiate head coach.

His uncle Walt, helped fund the playing facility at McMurry, which carries his name sake: Walt Driggers Field. During his tenure as head coach, Lee Driggers made sure that the facility was maintained at a superior level, and to this day, the field is considered one of the premiere baseball facilities in all the NCAA Division III.

Driggers and his wife Sharon have two daughters: Kristi Womack of Abilene and Jodi Unger of Springdale, Ark and a son, Austin, who plays football and baseball for his dad at Wheaton College in Illinois.

Bob Reily - Class of 1951

Bob Reily was a two-sport standout for McMurry University from 1947-1950 and graduated as a member of the class of 1951. Reily participated in both track & field and football.

He was a four-year letterman under the direction of head coach Wilford Moore on the Indian football team and played a part in three consecutive Texas Conference Championships by McMurry from 1948-1950. Reily participated in two bowl games including a 19-13 win over Missouri Valley College in the Oleander Bowl in 1949.

Reily played alongside three McMurry players selected in the NFL draft including Brad Rowland, Floyd Sampson and Les Cowan. Though he was primarily the center on the offensive side of the ball, he was often called to play on defense as well and played several games without ever leaving the field for a single play.

On the track, Reily was a short-distance runner and a member of the relay teams. He participated and medaled in several events at the Texas Relays, the Kansas Relays and the Border Olympics.

After his collegiate career, he began coaching track at the high school level and led Colorado City High School to a state championship and was named Coach of the Year in 1957 by the Abilene Reporter News.

Following his athletics career as both a participant and a coach, Reily opened the Prudential Insurance Office in Colorado City where he worked for 38 years before retiring in 1995. Reily has been tremendously involved in the community in Colorado City and has continued to support McMurry University financially and continues to work track meets hosted by McMurry each year.

Bob married Charlene Ross in 1950 and they have two sons, Patrick and William along with two grandchildren: Christopher and Alexia.

Team Award - 1968 Football Team

The 1968 football team was among one of the most successful teams to ever grace the campus of McMurry University. Under head coach Buddy Fornes, the McMurry Indians posted an 8-2 record with key wins over Abilene Christian, Sam Houston State, Southwest Texas State and Stephen F. Austin. The team competed in the Lone Star Conference and carried a league record of 5-2.

Nine players from Fornes' team went on to earn all-LSC honors including Gordon Hubenak, Tally Windham, John Bentley and Stanley Moore who were first-team honorees. Freeman Lamkin, Richard Puckett, Ray Findley, Steve Bowman and Robert Rivera were all second-team honorees.

Four players earned all-America recognition highlighted by Windham who was honored both by the AP Little all-America team and the NAIA. Chester Dougherty, Moore and Hubenak were all named NAIA all-Americans as well.

Known for their running game, this McMurry team still holds the school record for most carries in a season with 556. Puckett stands sixth all-time on McMurry's career passing list through the 2009 season with 3,385 yards, Matt Chalmers finished his career with 1,545 receiving yards, good for eighth all-time and Archie Smith carried the ball for 2,564 career yards and stands fifth all-time.

The 1968 team is one of only nine teams in the 83-year history of football to record at least eight wins in a season.

Bob & Clara Brown Award - Judy Moore

The Bob and Clara Brown award was given to its name sake beginning and 1998, and annually the McMurry Hall of Honor distributes this award to individuals, businesses, or families for their exceptional support of McMurry's athletics programs.

While all the other 2010 inductees into the McMurry Hall of Honor have been inducted for their accomplishments in the playing arena, Judy Moore, this year's Bob & Clara Brown Award recipient has been selected based upon her loyalty and impact on McMurry's athletics staff and student-athletes for the past 17 years.

Although, she initially took a job in the business office in 1988, Moore moved to take over as the administrative assistant for the athletics department beginning in 1994. She has been the mainstay for McMurry's athleic programs spanning nearly two decades.

While her job description might bore most with the incessant management of athletic spending and expense reports as well as the coordination of staffing and managing athletic events, she takes pride in her work, and loves to be a part of the McMurry family. Although her job is often thankless and keeps her putting in hours past the average Human Resources allowance, she continues to show her loyalty not only in the office, but as a consistent fan in the stands for the McMurry programs.

Judy Moore may have not been a four-time all-conference athlete, or helped McMurry University win a championship of any kind, but anybody who's anybody at McMurry knows that her impact is just as great if not greater.

She and her husband Rex have a son Brian, and three grandchildren: Bryson, Brandon and Brian.